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Table of Seal and Clerical Script Character Forms of the Qin, Han, Wei, and Jin (Two Volumes)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2022
Compiled under the editorship of the renowned calligrapher and seal-carving master Xu Wuwen, the Table of Seal and Clerical Script Forms from the Qin,…
Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Silverfish Explains Chinese Characters
Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
The book Baiyu Jiezi is the fruit of the late celebrated writer Liu Shahe's research on Chinese characters. Taking Xu Shen's Eastern Han dictionary Sh…
Three Hundred Sentences for Distinguishing Seal Script: Writing and Identifying Seal Script
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
This book is adapted and revised from the Yuan-dynasty Yingzai's Zhuanfa Bianjue (Rhymed Guide to Seal-Script Method), written out by Huang Shanshou i…
Wu Changshuo's Copy of the Stone Drum Inscriptions
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
This book selects representative characters from Wu Changshuo's copy of the Stone Drum Inscriptions, enlarges and publishes them, and includes the Xia…
Li Jianjun's Calligraphy of the Analects in Bronze Script
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
The Analects is the definitive text of Confucius's Confucian thought and the essence of the Chinese nation's outstanding traditional culture; the subj…
Studies on the Language of Excavated Texts (Volume 6)
Jinan University Press · 2026
This volume belongs to the Language Services Series: Excavated Texts Studies, dedicated to the study of the language of excavated texts. It collects t…
Language Service Book Series · Excavated Document Studies · Studies on the Language of Excavated Documents (Volume 5)
Jinan University Press · 2025
This volume, part of the Language Services Series · Excavated Manuscript Studies, is devoted to the study of the language of excavated manuscripts. It…
A Study of the Artistic Style of Gaoye Calligraphy
Jinan University Press · 2025
Based on years of research into the "Gaoye calligraphic style," this book seeks to introduce the lost Chu culture of "gao" to calligraphy enthusiasts …
Brilliant Science, Technology and Education: Seals and Stone Inscriptions
Modern Press · 2025
This book covers the origins of seals in the pre-Qin period, official and private seals of the Warring States era, and the beauty of ancient seal scri…
Language Service Book Series · Excavated Text Studies: Studies on the Language of Excavated Texts (Vol. 3)
Jinan University Press · 2025
This volume collects papers from the First International Symposium on Paleography and the Language of Unearthed Documents. It is organized into five s…
Exploring the Subtleties of Chinese Culture
The Commercial Press · 2024
Wang Demai (Léon Vandermeersch) is an internationally renowned sinologist. A student of Rao Zongyi, the towering figure of Chinese scholarship and mas…
Essays on Bamboo and Silk Manuscript Studies
The Commercial Press · 2023
Studies in Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts collects 39 academic papers, book reviews, and survey articles written by the author over nearly thirty years o…
Turtle Concealment
民主与建设出版社 · 2023
Gui Zang is an "accessible academic popular reader" centered on oracle bone script that goes on to interpret traditional Chinese culture, the first vo…
Chinese Characters Tell China: The World of Life in Chinese Characters
Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2022
An illustrated popular introduction to ancient Chinese characters, this book is divided into ten chapters. Through detailed explanations of more than …
Chinese Characters and Color
Jinan University Press · 2021
Compiled by Zheng Ji'e, Chinese Characters and Color begins with the forms of a dozen basic color characters, explaining the relationships among each …
When Metal and Stone Speak: Reflections on Documents and Scripts
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021
This book collects twenty academic notes, essays, reviews, and interviews by the prominent young scholar of ancient Chinese script Professor Guo Yongb…
Hanzhang New Classics Series: Illustrated Chinese Characters (Color Hand-Drawn Edition)
Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press · 2021
To help readers grasp the forms and meanings of Chinese characters quickly and accurately, this book provides an illustration for each character and l…
The Historiographer's Primary Script and the Eight Scripts of Qin
Zhonghua Book Company · 2021
"Primary Scribal Duties" was the basic function of historiographers, while the "Eight Scripts of Qin" refers to the eight script styles current in the…
An Outline of Bamboo Slip and Silk Manuscript Documents
Peking University Press · 2025
Grounded in a method that combines nearly a century of excavated artifacts with transmitted textual records, this book surveys fundamental questions c…